ESRI Map Integration

ESRI maps are one of Strategy's out-of-the-box offerings. ESRI maps allow you to plot data as pie charts or density map, use ESRI shapefiles (.SHP) for custom shapes, or build affinity lines or path maps in documents. ESRI maps are supported in both dashboard and document authoring.

ESRI maps are recommended if you want to build documents, visualize networks with affinity lines, analyze data only within the United States, create density maps, or plot data as pie charts.

Boundary layers for United States counties in the ESRI map have changed. The old county layer was deprecated. The new LSAD names for counties have been incorporated into ESRI's updated boundary feature layers. Beginning in Strategy One (June 2025), the default endpoints that use these layers are marked as deprecated in Strategy's ESRI maps. For more details, see Changes to Boundary Feature Layers for the ESRI Map.

No warehouse or metadata information is sent to external servers other than the area names used to retrieve the polyon shapes. For details, see KB46526.

To use the cloud-based ESRI Maps offered out-of-the-box, you must first perform the following steps:

1. Generate a Key for ESRI
2. Configuring map visualizations
3. (Optional) Data and Design Requirements for Mobile Maps

After, you can begin using the Map visualization in the Visualization Gallery.